RE: release candidate 22.07-rc3

["Jiang, YuX" <yux.jiang@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2022 4:36 AM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 22.07-rc3
>
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
>       https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.07-rc3
>
> There are 82 new patches in this snapshot.
>
> Release notes:
>       https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_07.html
>
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> You may share some release validation results by replying to this message at
> dev@dpdk.org.
>
> DPDK 22.07-rc4 should be the last chance for bug fixes and doc updates.
> Do not forget to review pending patches for examples and documentation.
>
> Please think about sharing your roadmap now for DPDK 22.11.
>
> Thank you everyone
>

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.07-rc3 test execution rate is 65%, find 2 new bugs, No.2 is critical bug.
No.1, "Bug 1048 - [dpdk-22.07rc3] i40e_rss_input/flow_query: RSS types is not displayed tests failed". Only display failed, there is no fix yet.
No.2, [dpdk-22.07rc3]The performance of X710 drop about 45% when testing nic_single_core: has fix and verify passed.
http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220707162602.2123584-1-kevinx.liu@intel.com/  ---Need push to merge.

Known critical bugs:
1, The performance of virtio PVP multi_paths has a drop(~about 5%) between DPDK22.07-rc2 and DPDK-22.03
split ring has fix, http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220707065513.66458-1-xuan.ding@intel.com/  ---Need verify then need push to merge.
packed ring has no fix, Intel Dev is investigating.
2, Bug 1044 - [dpdk-22.07] ice_iavf_fdir: the ipv4/6 gtpu_eh rule not take effect
has fix, http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220706025626.1070737-1-wenxuanx.wu@intel.com/   ---Need push to merge.

# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build or compile:
 *Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Ubuntu22.04, Fedora36, RHEL8.6 etc.
  - All test passed.

* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
        - Execution rate is 80%. Find 1 new bug: "Bug 1048 - [dpdk-22.07rc3] i40e_rss_input/flow_query: RSS types is not displayed tests failed". There is no fix yet.

* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
        - Execution rate is 80%. No new bug is found.

* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
        - Execution rate is 80%. Find 1 critical bug:[dpdk-22.07rc3]The performance of X710 drop about 45% when testing nic_single_core: has fix and verify passed.

# Basic virtio testing
* Virtio: both function and performance test are covered. Such as PVP/Virtio_loopback/virtio-user loopback/virtio-net VM2VM perf testing/VMAWARE ESXI 7.0u3, etc.
        - Execution rate is 80%. No new bug is found.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang